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Re: Ignore two more files for copyright.sh
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:31:41 -0800
- Subject: Re: Ignore two more files for copyright.sh
- References: <20070109213811.GE30631@nevyn.them.org> <uzm8rhm3c.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:38:11 -0500
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>>
>> Pie on my face. I knew this would happen... I suppose I'm impressed
>> there was only one test depending on exact line numbering.
>
> Btw, it's possible to have the copyright notice at the end of the
> file, if we say at the beginning something like "Copyright notice at
> the end of the file". That way, the "operational" parts of the file
> will never change their line numbers, while your script will find the
> copyright if it's within the first 2KB of the file (and if that's not
> enough, we can enlarge this value by a one-line change to the
> gdb-copyright-update function in your script).
There are other facilities in lib/gdb.exp for writing tests so that
they don't depend on exact line numbers (see gdb_get_line_number).
This is a practice to avoid whenever possible, anyway.